CASIA-WebFace [1]} features about half a million images from 10'000 identities.
It is also often used for face verification and face identification.
The images were collected from celebrities of various years of birth.
MS-Celeb-1M (MS1M) [2]} is a dataset with ten million images of celebrities collected from the Internet representing a variety of nationalities and professions such as politicians, actors, writers, and singers.
It consists of 100'000 identities in total with about 100 images per identity, with over three quarters of the subjects being female.
Several researchers released extensions of this dataset, most of them handling some mislabeling issues that a dataset of such size always contains [3]}, [4]}.
More recently, the WebFace260M dataset was released [5]}.
This dataset is currently the largest public face recognition dataset.
It is composed of noisy 260M faces of 4M identities and a cleaned version composed of 42M faces and 2M identities.
